Los Angeles Times photographer Don Bartletti snapped this wonderful photo
of the battleship U.S.S. Iowa passing underneath the Golden Gate Bridge
on its final journey.

Steve Chawkins of the LA Times has the story:

Coincidentally, the 69-year-old ship's stately passage occurred
as tourists thronged San Francisco for Memorial Day and for a citywide
celebration of the bridge's 75th birthday.

"It's so fitting that this great warship goes out for her
last time on the bridge's 75th anniversary," said Bob Rogers, a
spokesman for the Pacific Battleship Center, the nonprofit that is funding
the ship's move and transformation into a museum.

"So many battleships and destroyers left for the Pacific out
of San Francisco Bay," he said. "There were very emotional
feelings as they passed under the bridge to go out and very happy feelings
when they passed under it to return."